12th May
…platanoides ‘Royal Red’ Acer heldreichii looks very much like an A. platanoides! Acer heldreichii Acer heldreichii Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ making a good show. Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ First…
…platanoides ‘Royal Red’ Acer heldreichii looks very much like an A. platanoides! Acer heldreichii Acer heldreichii Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ making a good show. Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ First…
…Better than Quercus rubra or not? Smaller leaf certainly here but the jury is out. Quercus coccinea Quercus coccinea Fothergilla major – what a collection of colours! Astonishing. Fothergilla major…
…quite all out together. Crinum powellii Crinum powellii Crinum powellii Crassula coccinea full out. Rather better than the species which we stock. Crassula coccinea Crassula coccinea Puya chilensis flower stalks….
…‘Coxs Orange Pippin’ Plum ‘Victoria’ was also loaded with fruit. Plum ‘Victoria’ Plum ‘Victoria’ Escallonia ‘Compacta Coccinea’ was looking good and makes a nice shrub. Escallonia ‘Compacta Coccinea’ Escallonia ‘Compacta…
…quickly into full leaf. Splendid if we had the sun on it. beech tree The Quercus coccinea by the garden entrance is also putting on its first leaves. Strangely attractive…
…ought to be more widely grown (one was over and one still to come out). Azalea ‘Maja’ – nearly over Azalea ‘Maja’ Azalea ‘Maja’ Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ – raised before…
…jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower in a tunnel. Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ just out. Other varieties still to show colour. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Schizostylis coccinea ‘Major’…
…even better than a week ago. Quercus imbricaria Quercus imbricaria Quercus coccinea stunning too. Quercus coccinea Lagerstroemia indica ‘Red Emperor’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Red Emperor’ Fothergilla intermedia ‘Blue Shadow’ Fothergilla intermedia…
…Ingram’ Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’ Geranium sanguineum ‘Striatum’. Geranium sanguineum ‘Striatum’ Hesperantha coccinea ‘Sunrise’. Hesperantha coccinea ‘Sunrise’ The gingers have still not died down. gingers Newly delivered are a few…
…has an odd flower and remaining bract – Salvia africano-lutea (Beach salvia). Salvia africano-lutea Salvia africano-lutea Salvia africano-lutea Crassula coccinea with striking red flowers. Much better than our Crassula sarcocaulis….